Wolfgang Tillmans - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation New York Thursday, April 4, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, 1998

  • Literature

    Museum of Modern Art, Wolfgang Tillmans: To Look Without Fear, p. 160

  • Artist Biography

    Wolfgang Tillmans

    German • 1968

    Since the early 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium. Challenging the indexical nature traditionally associated with photography, his abstract and representational photographic bodies of work each in their own way put forward the notion of the photograph as object—rather than as a record of reality. While achieving his breakthrough with portraits and lifestyle photographs, documenting celebrity culture as well as LGBTQ communities and club culture, since the turn of the millennium the German photographer has notably created abstract work such as the Freischwimmer series, which is made in the darkroom without a camera.

    Seamlessly integrating genres, subject matters, techniques and exhibition strategies, Tillmans is known for photographs that pair playfulness and intimacy with a persistent questioning of dominant value and hierarchy structures of our image-saturated world. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer to receive the prestigious Turner Prize.

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O.M.

1997
Chromogenic print, printed 1998.
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 'Wolfgang Tillmans, o.M., pl 997, pr wt 598 2/3+1' in pencil on the verso. Photographed in 1997 and printed in 1998, this work is number two from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $12,700

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation

New York Auction 4 April 2024